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3 Apr 17
In a bid to boost home building, councils will have to produce up-to-date registers of brownfield sites in their areas, the government has announced.
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31 Mar 17
The gap between local housing allowance and private rent means housing is out of reach for young single people, research has revealed.
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24 Mar 17
The government balance sheet is increasingly being used to support flagging sectors of the economy from infrastructure to mortgages. What are the risks to the public finances?
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22 Mar 17
Homelessness among young people is being fuelled by cuts to benefits and a shortfall in housing, according to a report out today.
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3 Mar 17
Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
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3 Mar 17
Facts and figures from the March edition of Public Finance magazine on rising inflation, public support for greater health spending and the spike in rough sleeping
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1 Mar 17
The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
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7 Feb 17
Local authorities are to be given new tools to increase the speed and scale of house building in their area as part of government proposals to tackle the nationwide housing crisis.
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23 Jan 17
Councils need a suite of new powers to crack down on landlords who let out substandard accommodation, Labour has said.
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19 Jan 17
Housebuilding needs to “increase across the country”, the National Audit Office has said.
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18 Jan 17
More than 120,000 socially rented homes will be lost in the next four years, according to a forecast published today by the Chartered Institute for Housing.
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13 Jan 17
The Scottish Government has announced the first changes to its benefits regime under the welfare powers devolved by last year’s Scotland Act – but was criticised by its opponents for not...
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13 Jan 17
Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
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11 Jan 17
Almost three-quarters of local councils believe that the planning system is weighted too heavily in favour of developers at the expense of local democracy, according to a survey.
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5 Jan 17
Housing providers are being invited to bid for a share of a £7bn fund in what is being billed as a “dramatic expansion” of the government’s affordable housing programme.
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3 Jan 17
The locations of the first 14 garden villages and three more garden towns were confirmed yesterday.
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3 Jan 17
The government has given the green light for thousands of new starter homes to be built on brownfield sites across the country, with 30 local authority partnerships chosen to spearhead the scheme.
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23 Dec 16
The government is to provide £60m to boost affordable housing in council areas most affected by second homeownership.
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8 Dec 16
The government will plough £32m into a strategy to regenerate England’s run down estates, communities secretary Sajid Javid has announced.
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28 Nov 16
As rents rise and benefits fall, more people face losing their home. A bill aims to stop people from becoming homeless by giving English councils specific duties to help everyone at an earlier stage
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25 Nov 16
Personalised support helps people to live independently and keep their tenancies. Housing provider Midland Heart works with others to provide specialist assistance to various groups, including...
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23 Nov 16
It’s safe to say housing is back on the agenda and today’s Autumn Statement is a welcome step in the right direction, but there is more to be done
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23 Nov 16
Philip Hammond has pledged a real terms doubling of the government’s annual spending on housing through a £2.3bn fund unveiled in the Autumn Statement today.
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23 Nov 16
Philip Hammond’s announcements on housing and mayoral borrowing powers represent a welcome shift in policy. But social care’s absence from the chancellor’s speech is more worrying.
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22 Nov 16
The government has stepped back from its controversial ‘Pay to Stay’ plans, which would have charged better-paid council tenants higher rents.
3 Apr 17In a bid to boost home building, councils will have to produce up-to-date registers of brownfield sites in their areas, the government has announced.
31 Mar 17The gap between local housing allowance and private rent means housing is out of reach for young single people, research has revealed.
24 Mar 17The government balance sheet is increasingly being used to support flagging sectors of the economy from infrastructure to mortgages. What are the risks to the public finances?
22 Mar 17Homelessness among young people is being fuelled by cuts to benefits and a shortfall in housing, according to a report out today.
3 Mar 17Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
3 Mar 17Facts and figures from the March edition of Public Finance magazine on rising inflation, public support for greater health spending and the spike in rough sleeping
1 Mar 17The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
7 Feb 17Local authorities are to be given new tools to increase the speed and scale of house building in their area as part of government proposals to tackle the nationwide housing crisis.
23 Jan 17Councils need a suite of new powers to crack down on landlords who let out substandard accommodation, Labour has said.
18 Jan 17More than 120,000 socially rented homes will be lost in the next four years, according to a forecast published today by the Chartered Institute for Housing.
13 Jan 17The Scottish Government has announced the first changes to its benefits regime under the welfare powers devolved by last year’s Scotland Act – but was criticised by its opponents for not...
13 Jan 17Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
11 Jan 17Almost three-quarters of local councils believe that the planning system is weighted too heavily in favour of developers at the expense of local democracy, according to a survey.
5 Jan 17Housing providers are being invited to bid for a share of a £7bn fund in what is being billed as a “dramatic expansion” of the government’s affordable housing programme.
3 Jan 17The locations of the first 14 garden villages and three more garden towns were confirmed yesterday.
23 Dec 16The government is to provide £60m to boost affordable housing in council areas most affected by second homeownership.
28 Nov 16As rents rise and benefits fall, more people face losing their home. A bill aims to stop people from becoming homeless by giving English councils specific duties to help everyone at an earlier stage
25 Nov 16Personalised support helps people to live independently and keep their tenancies. Housing provider Midland Heart works with others to provide specialist assistance to various groups, including...
23 Nov 16Philip Hammond’s announcements on housing and mayoral borrowing powers represent a welcome shift in policy. But social care’s absence from the chancellor’s speech is more worrying.
22 Nov 16The government has stepped back from its controversial ‘Pay to Stay’ plans, which would have charged better-paid council tenants higher rents.
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